In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE, which releases compositional and installation work by sound artists and composers working with contemporary and digital minimalism, including Bernhard Gunter, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Christopher Willits, Roel Meelkop, Carsten Nicolai/Alva Noto, Asmus Tietchens, Mark Fell and the first full-length CDs by Miki Yui, Skoltz_Kolgen, and Steinbruchel.
In 2006 he was commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to create a collaborative sound performance work in conjunction with the Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective exhibit.
Untitled, exhibited at the Art Gallery of University of Maryland (US) two 15-foot-long (4.6 m) by 8-foot-high (2.4 m) walls meet in an enfolding chevron, creating both a sound chamber and a drawing surface.
In March 2010, Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship to study the National Museum of American History's collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration.
Chartier will focus specifically on the many sirens, waveforms, and other inventions of the German physicist Rudolf Koenig including the Grand Tonometer (c. 1870–1875), the only instrument of its kind in existence.